Lex Fridman Podcast #73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI
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Feb 20, 2020 
Andrew Ng, a leading educator and AI innovator, co-founder of Coursera, and Google Brain, shares insights on the evolution of artificial intelligence and its applications in education. He discusses the importance of customer-centric strategies in startups and the shift towards user-friendly online learning. Ng highlights challenges in machine learning education and emphasizes self-supervised learning's potential. He also reflects on how AI can drive social change and the significance of surrounding oneself with the right people for success.
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Early Coding
- Andrew Ng learned BASIC as a child and copied code from books to play simple games.
- This sparked his interest in coding and automation.
Interest in AI
- Andrew Ng's father introduced him to expert systems and neural networks as a teenager.
- An internship with lots of photocopying further motivated his interest in automation.
Focus on Automation
- Focus on automating tasks that humans can do with machine learning.
- This has been a central theme in Andrew Ng's work, including MOOCs.
